The People’s Climate March will take place this coming Sunday. And with around 2,000 events planned, including huge rallies in New York and London, this may well prove to be the largest climate rally in history.

Local people in Mahan, central India, come together to oppose mining in their forests.

In the village it is pitch dark by 7.30 pm. At the designated spot for the meeting, there are about 15 or 20 villagers holding solar lanterns. The meeting lasts over two hours and throughout that time, people keep coming and joining the conversation. Halfway into the meeting, I turn around to steal a quick look at the crowd and I am surprised at how large the group has become! It’s about a 100 people sitting, standing, leaning against their houses and trees, listening intently and waiting for their turn to speak.

Today, several thousand people have joined hands across the German-Polish border, forming a human chain that passes through towns and villages that stand on the front-line of the fight against climate change.

We all took notice when
about 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during
the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the fact that about 30 million barrels of oil are spilled on Russian
land each year might be news to a lot of us.

‘Shark’: it’s an
evocative and symbolic single syllable. Just the sound of the word conjures up
a host of associated images, usually to do with menacing fins, teeth, and a
certain cinematic soundtrack. #SharkWeek
ramps up the public awareness around sharks, but it’s also a chance to
reconsider and revalue these iconic, and undoubtedly
awesome, ocean creatures.